Race and Religion

What were the areas that held strong religious views in America known as?

Bible Belt

What was the name for the Protestants who believed the Bible word?

Fundamentalists

What did states, including Tennessee, ban the teaching of?

Evolution

Who was the teacher who deliberately broke the law and taught evolution?

Johnny Scopes

What did the trial of Scopes become known as?

The Monkey Trial

Which leading Fundamentalist led the case for the prosecution of Scopes?

William Jennings Bryan

Who was Scopes' lawyer?

Clarence Darrow

Where did the Monkey Trial take place?

Tennessee

What was the trial less about the case and more about?

Conservative America Vs Progressive America

How much was Scopes fined after being found guilty?

$100

How were Native Americans destroyed?

Killed buffalo, Christianity, take away power of tribal chiefs.

Where were Native American children sent?

Boarding schools

How did the settlers treat the Native Americans?

As inferior - cheating them out of land

In what year was the Meriam report made which said the boarding schools were underfunded?

1928

What act passed in 1887 gave the government the right to take away Native American land?

Allotment Act

In what year were Native Americans granted US citizenship and given the right to vote?

1924

What changed for Native Americans after gaining citizenship and the right to vote?

Very little

What percentage of America's Black population lived in the South in 1900?

75%

What were the laws that segregated black people from whites known as?

Jim Crow Laws

What two facilities were poorer for Blacks than Whites?

Health and Education

In theory, what should segregation have been for Blacks?

'Separate but equal'

What did black people have to pass in certain states to be able to vote?

Literacy test

What was the period known as when Black people moved North to look for work from 1916-20?

Great Migration

Where did Black people often end up living once they moved North?

Ghettos

How many Black people were killed in the Chicago race riot of 1920?

Unknown

Despite racism, where was there a growing Black middle class?

Chicago and New York

Which peaceful anti-racism organization was founded by William Du Bois?

NAACP

What was the Ku Klux Klan originally founded to establish?

White supremacy

Who re-established the KKK in 1915?

William Simmons

Which film released in 1915 inspired the re-emergence of the KKK?

The Birth of a Nation

Who was allowed to join the Klan?

WASPS; White Anglo-Saxon Protestants

By 1925, how many members of the KKK were there?

5 million

What was a symbol of the Klan's night time meetings?

Burning cross

What did many members of the KKK wear and carry?

White cloaks, American flag

Who were the strongest supporters of the Klan?

White, working-class in the south

Who were the high profile members of the Klan?

Two US senators from Georgia and governor of Alabama

What violent acts were the Klan associated with?

Lynching, killings, mutilation, floggings, tar and feather

Support for the Klan fell from 1925 after which Grand Dragon was found guilty of rape?

DC Stephenson